• Tornado among strongest storms to hit US

  The tornado that tore through the Oklahoma City suburbs this week ranks among the strongest storms ever to strike the United States, packing powerful winds that topped 200 ...

• Kenner school recalls recent tornado

  Just a month ago, a tornado touched down less than a half-mile from the Audubon Elementary School - forcing students to take cover. "It started out as a normal day, but within minutes, the weather quickly turned dangerous," said Principal Bernard Tassin. Tassin said on April 24 his staff worked quickly to ensure the school's 500-plus students were in a safe location as an EF-1 ...

• I-Team Covington officers heard using racial slurs in patrol car

  A 2010 audio tape, obtained exclusively by the WDSU I-Team, is riling up members of the Greater Covington NAACP and African-American community on the ...

• Oklahoma tornado cuts 17-mile path

  Search-and-rescue crews with dogs went through smashed houses and crushed cars on Tuesday, looking for signs of life a day after a monster tornado pulverized a vast swath of suburbs of Oklahoma ...

• New Orleans Police ID Parade Shooting Suspect

  New Orleans police have identified Akein Scott as the alleged gunman in Sunday's Mother's Day parade shooting in the Big Easy. "We would like to remind the community and Akein Scott that the time has come for him to turn himself in," Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas said of Scott, describing him as "no stranger to the criminal justice system." Officers say ...

• New Orleans prays for Oklahoma

  A tornado struck just Moore, Oklahoma, south of Oklahoma City on Monday afternoon, May 20, 2013, ripping apart homes and other buildings in populated areas. The National Weather Service issued a rare tornado emergency for the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, meaning that significant and widespread damage and fatalities were ...

• Students send messages of hope to Oklahoma

  "We are so sorry what happened to you. We will pray for you and hope you get well. You are in our hearts," said Adelaide Laurant as she read aloud from a card she ...

• Police Nursing home employee stole residents jewelry sold to pawn shops

  Slidell police said they arrested a woman who stole jewelry and a digital camera from several elderly people at a nursing home and sold it to pawn ...

• Weather service Okla. Tornado was EF5

  Search and rescue crews with dogs went through smashed houses and crushed cars on Tuesday, looking for signs of life in the aftermath of the monster tornado that pulverized a vast swath of Oklahoma City's ...

• Indy poised to make 2018 bid for Super Bowl

  Less than an hour after the league announced San Francisco would host the 50th Super Bowl in 2016 and Houston would host the game in 2017, Indiana Sports Corp. president Allison Melangton told reporters she would ...

• Chemical prompts bomb squad response at Jefferson County school

  The bomb squad from the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office is responding to West Jefferson Middle School on Tuesday afternoon.The sheriff's office reports that students were evacuated from the school, 9449 S. Barnes Ave., Conifer, after an unstable item was found in a chemistry lab.The evacuated students were gathered at the football field while the danger was assessed.The incident ...

• Cleco sends crew to help in wake of Oklahoma tornado

  Cleco Corp. is sending a 34-member crew to Oklahoma City to help Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company restore power to customers after a tornado destroyed its electric ...

• AP Charlotte Bobcats to change team name to Hornets

  The person says Jordan will detail the timetable for the change to be completed at a press conference the Bobcats have scheduled for Tuesday. The person spoke to The Associated Press Monday on condition of anonymity because the name change has not been publicly ...

• Judge gags attorneys witnesses relatives in Akein Scott case

  Citing the extensive media coverage already given to the case, Judge Arthur Hunter has issued a gag order on attorneys, witnesses, relatives and others close to Akein Scott, the 19-year-old accused of firing shots into a second line crowd on Mother's ...

• Police 17-year-old bicyclist killed Monday in St. Bernard Parish

  Police say Chase Naquin of Arabi was bicycling west on the eastbound shoulder of LA 39 near Deer Creek Street when he turned into the eastbound lane oncoming ...

• LPSO Deputy shoots man who attacks him after domestically abusing woman

  Kennedy continued his attack on the deputy, who drew his weapon in self-defense and fired twice, striking Kennedy with a non-life-threatening wound, according to the sheriff's ...

• Police Intoxicated mom left baby in vehicle to go to bar

  A spokesman for the Kenner Police Department confirmed to WDSU that the infant was strapped into a baby carrier inside the vehicle - with the keys in the ignition and the engine running - for about an ...

• Auto supplier G-Tekt to expand in West Jefferson adding 23 jobs

  G-Tekt, which manufactures auto parts for several Japanese automakers, is expanding in West Jefferson and adding 23 jobs. G-Tekt North America Corp. will proceed with a $28.6 million manufacturing plant in West Jefferson as it starts to narrow its search for a research and development facility along the Route 33 corridor between Dublin and Marysville. Both facilities will open in the first ...

• Unrestrained 10-year-old girl killed in Monday Tangipahoa Parish crash

  State police say a 10-year-old girl died after she was ejected from a car in a crash on La. Highway 1054 northeast of Independence in Tangipahoa ...

• 1 accused in Garden District rape asks that trio be tried separately

  The two teens arrested in connection with a kidnapping, rape and robbery in the Garden District were transferred to Orleans Parish Prison and the case will be handled in adult ...

• Louisiana casinos win $35.8M less in April than in March

  State police figures show most also won less than they did a year ago. The big exceptions were 8.7 percent one-year increases at both L'Auberge Lake Charles and the slots casino at the New Orleans Fair ...

• Power line falls on school bus in Treme no injuries reported

  Amid downed power lines, hissing gas pipes and immense devastation, rescuers searched "board by board" Tuesday for survivors and victims of a massive tornado that pulverized a vast swath of the Oklahoma City ...

• Rescuers search board by board for survivors

  Amid downed power lines, hissing gas pipes and immense devastation, rescuers searched "board by board" Tuesday for survivors and victims of a massive tornado that pulverized a vast swath of the Oklahoma City ...

• 1 adult 2 juveniles arrested in connection with Montz fires

  Beau Badeaux, 24, along with two male minors, ages 16 and 15, were arrested on three counts of aggravated arson each. Additionally, Badeaux was booked on six counts of delinquency of a ...

• JPSO 2 Monday night Harvey shootings leave 2 men dead

  Officers followed a trail of blood leading across the street to an open field in the 2200 block of Alex Kornman Street. There, officers found the body of 32-year-old Larry Wix. He was pronounced dead on the ...

• Oil Tank Explodes in Louisiana

  An oil tank has exploded in Louisiana, several miles outside of Baton Rouge, reported the Associated Press. The explosion, which happened late Thursday night near Denham Springs, prompted the evacuation of 30 to 35 homes. No injuries have been reported thus far. The fire is contained in a 200-square-footarea. One of two oil holding tanks that were at the scene ruptured and caught fire but ...

• Okla. tornado death toll revised down to at least 24

  A massive, howling tornado pulverized a vast swath of the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, chewing up homes and businesses, and severely damaging a hospital and two elementary ...

• Okla. Medical examiner expects more bodies

  The vicious tornado that tore across central Oklahoma on Monday has killed at least 51 people -- with about 40 more bodies expected to arrive at the Oklahoma Medical Examiner's office, Amy Elliott of the coroner's office said. The official death toll will gradually rise as the bodies are ...

• Jefferson City doctor who received emergency suspension allowed back in medicine

  When a ferocious storm hit De Soto High School dead-on in 2003, no children were hurt, thanks in part to the efforts of two track coaches who ...

• Help The Victims Of The Oklahoma Tornadoes

  A U.S. flag lays among debris in Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013 following a tornado up to a mile wide which swept through the Oklahoma City ...

• Delgado baseball team avoids Oklahoma tornado

  The Delgado baseball team was in Oklahoma competing for a shot to go to the Junior College World Series. Instead, they encountered a series of severe ...

• Merging Could Secure The Future of Health Care in Jefferson Parish

  Representatives from East and West Jefferson hospitals say a merger with a bigger hospital system is the works. For that to happen the rules have to be changed in the form of House Bill 383. This legislation would amend the current law which would now allow elected official to determine the hospital's fatenot voters. House Bill 383 has made it through the house and is expected to ...

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